PHP Firewall Software

The family of high performance PHP Firewall products are very powerful Firewall Software written in PHP, for CMS and e-Commerces, that integrates with them, and evaluates the request before all the stack of the CMS/e-Commerces is loaded.

This way, if a request is determined malevolent, or from a IP previously banned or blocked, the process ends returning immediately a 403 HTTP code, and the server does not waste the resources associated to the CMS responding to fraudulent requests.

Fraudulent requests generate load to the CPU of the web server, load to the CPU and memory of the Database server, and wastes bandwidth sending a page (HTML, CSS, js, images) to a rogue connection. In many cases, the exceeding outgoing Internet traffic (egress) is charged to you.

Nowadays most of the connections come from bots: crawlers that index your site for different purposes, bots that try to hack your server to use it for malevolent objectives (to get an account in your server and publish spam products, scams, to hack other servers from yours, prove for vulnerabilities...), and very often those bots trying and trying to get into your server, cause your service to be slow to your legit visitors, degrades the performance of the database, makes you score bad in Web Vitals...

Carles Mateo PHP Firewall protects from those attacks, and provides information to block many other attacks and to do forensics (to see what's happening at the requests that get to your server) and integrates with proxies like varnish, nginx, and CDNs like Cloudflare and Fastly.

It has WAF (Web Application Features) and provides a list of pre-enabled patterns that attackers use, so when they request them, they get immediately banned. Rate-limit features protect from attacks using POST (usually not cached by the CDN's), attempts to login, publish comments, change passwords, create users...

PHP Firewall family is composed by the same core functionality and features, and similar user interface across several products, and we release the same exact version number for the several products: